DX Application Performance Management

  • 1.  EP Agent REST API - Log File Adapter

    Posted Dec 15, 2016 06:21 AM

    Hi

     

    I was wondering if anyone at CA or in the community had developed a configurable log file adapter that could plug in to the REST API via the EP Agent ?

     

    We have a use case to develop an LFA capability for applications that run in our cloud environment. As such, we don't want to use the traditional LFA which runs as a stateful plugin via the EPAgent as we don't want to put an EP Agent in a container if possible.

    We want a lightweight LFA process that can run in a container wuith the application log files, and can hook into the REST API of an EP Agent that we will deploy at the server/node level (as opposed to inside every container). So we would have one/many lightweight LFAs on a node, hooking into the REST API of a single EP Agent.

     

    Is anyone in the community or within CA APM looking at a similar idea and can share information about this ?



  • 2.  Re: EP Agent REST API - Log File Adapter

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Dec 15, 2016 04:33 PM

    Hi Dave,

    We have examples of using the REST APIs on CA APM Dev (http://bit.ly/caapm_dev). Have you looked at that?



  • 3.  Re: EP Agent REST API - Log File Adapter

    Posted Dec 16, 2016 03:00 AM

    Thanks Hiko, I haven't looked at this before, will check it out. 



  • 4.  Re: EP Agent REST API - Log File Adapter
    Best Answer

    Posted Dec 15, 2016 07:43 PM

    Hello Dave,

    I developed by now 2 different rest plugins (one to get the tweets for a certain filter, other to retrieve performance from a MySQL database), both in java and sending the info to the REST EPAgent.

    I'm willing to help you on this if you want.

    Best regards,

    Harold



  • 5.  Re: EP Agent REST API - Log File Adapter

    Posted Dec 16, 2016 03:00 AM

    Thanks for that Harold. We are looking at the art of the possible right now, so any help/advice we can get will be great.

    I spoke to CA yesterday about this requirement and we will pick it up again with them mid January, after the holiday season etc. Our aim is to get a user-configurable lightweight LFA that can run in a container and deliver metrics into APM whenever a pattern-match is detected by the LFA.